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AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee Feb 11th, 2026

Finance and Taxation Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Recognizing that certain professions serve a distinct statewide function and require focused institutional
  • 13:14.240><c> a</c><00:13:14.280><c> distinct</c><00:13:14.680><c> statewide</c><00:13:15.240><c> function
  • </c><00:13:15.760><c> and</c> serve a distinct statewide function and serve a distinct statewide function
Bills: HB151 , HB152 , HB138 , SB221 , SB190 , SB69 , SB225 , SB272 , HB151 , HB152 , HB138 , SB221 , SB190 , SB69 , SB225 , SB272
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Kidney function. Troponin is the test that if it's elevated, you're not going home.
  • prohibition on people using a vaccine or treatment, one that is approved by the federal government,
  • prohibition on people using a vaccine or treatment, one that is approved by the federal government,
  • If the government doesn't do something like they did last time, then those vaccines, I assume.
  • The database that we have created, and it's almost fully functional, not quite, very small investment
Summary: The committee first reopened testimony on House Bill 2216, which would strengthen child welfare requirements by expanding “active efforts” to help families avoid removal and support reunification, while also raising standards related to removals and terminations. Supporters from child welfare and family defense groups said the bill would better protect families and align Texas more closely with ICWA-style principles, but several warned it would require significant new funding, staffing, and community services such as mental health care, housing, child care, and substance use treatment. The committee then left HB 2216 pending. The committee next heard Senate Bill 1782, aimed at boarding and group homes. Senator Miles said the bill closes enforcement gaps left by prior law by requiring retention of background-check records and creating misdemeanor penalties for failing to conduct or keep them, or for knowingly hiring people with serious convictions. Harris County sheriff’s investigators testified in support, describing illegal boarding homes, operators who evade permits and background checks, and exploitation of vulnerable residents; the bill was left pending. The committee also took up Senate Bill 481 on emergency preparedness for nursing facilities and assisted living facilities, adopted a new committee substitute that softened some requirements and removed the fiscal note, and left the bill pending. The committee then heard House Bill 388, which would require the Texas Department of Insurance to create a single standardized coordination-of-benefits form for dual health plans to reduce errors and surprise bills; it was left pending. Senate Bill 1590 would move paternity registry searches for adoptions to an electronic process with a 10-day target, and House Bill 2809 would track child suicide attempts in managing conservatorship and require related reporting and parental notice; both were left pending. The committee also heard Senate Bill 1887, which would prohibit administering mRNA-containing products for immunization for 10 years, with exceptions for cancer and genetic disorders. Supporters argued the bill was needed for safety, informed consent, and medical freedom, while opponents from the medical, research, and public health communities said mRNA vaccines are well-studied, save lives, and that the bill would harm access, research, and Texas’s biotech economy. The bill remained under discussion as testimony concluded.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Senate May 31st, 2026

Louisiana Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • You know, the word of God says in Isaiah 9:6 that the government should be upon his shoulders, and certainly
  • we are a part of the government, and we are upon his shoulders.
  • , the security, and everyone that touch or have something to do with the well-being of how this government
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 3rd, 2026 at 05:50 pm

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • functions, is essential.
  • It limits the public disclosure of sex designation information in government records.
  • People interacting with government should feel safe, and this bill helps them do that.
  • Speaker, predictability and certainty from state government is essential to a well-functioning state.
  • And certainty from state government is essential to a well-functioning state.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 3rd, 2026 at 02:00 pm

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • I think this is a good little bill for better government efficiency.
  • I think this is a good little bill for better government efficiency.
  • Lord knows, I mean, against the city, against the state, against the federal government.
  • or state government law enforcement agency.
  • or state government law enforcement agency. government or state government law enforcement agency.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 3rd, 2026 at 09:00 am

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Further remarks, the government from the 4th District, Representative Schmidt. Thank you, Mr.
  • nay by physically raising your hand, or so it is visible to the Speaker, or by raising the hand function
  • With the consent of the House, the State Government and Tribal Relations Committee amendments will be
  • It’s State Government Committee Day on the floor.
  • We've seen Washington State government impose numerous new restrictions on our rental housing providers
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Mar 3rd, 2026

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Well, that would be an accurate description of the type of government that we live in, and we all got
  • functions, is essential.
  • It limits the public disclosure of sex designation information in government records.
  • People interacting with government should feel safe, and this bill helps them do that.
  • Speaker, predictability and certainty from state government is essential to a well-functioning state.
Summary: The House received several messages from the Senate announcing passage of engrossed or substitute versions of House Bill 2294, House Bill 2472, Senate Bill 606, Senate Bill 6335, engrossed substitute Senate Bill 6266, and engrossed substitute House Bill 3. The chamber then moved through second and third reading on a series of measures, often suspending the rules to advance bills to final passage. A major floor debate centered on Senate Concurrent Resolution 8406, which would reestablish the Joint Select Committee on Civic Health and expand its membership. Amendment 2131, offered to keep the committee at its current size rather than expanding it, was rejected after debate over fiscal restraint, committee scope, and whether the body functioned like a “proxy legislature.” The resolution then passed 83-10. The House also passed engrossed substitute Senate Bill 6200 on portable cooling devices for renters and mobile home occupants, Senate Bill 6084 on clarifying the prohibition on voting in more than one election, second engrossed substitute Senate Bill 5105 on sexually explicit depictions involving minors, and Senate Bill 6046 authorizing the Civil Air Patrol to be used by the governor in emergencies; each drew debate over policy scope, enforcement, and state-federal authority, but all ultimately passed. The House next passed substitute Senate Bill 6054, limiting HOA and common-interest community restrictions that conflict with wildfire-hardening measures; substitute Senate Bill 6091, requiring greater transparency in real estate broker practices; Senate Bill 6291, giving more time to train and certify on-site wastewater inspectors; substitute Senate Bill 6081, creating a Public Records Act exemption for sex designation information to protect transgender people from doxxing and harassment; Senate Bill 5963, automatically enrolling certain vulnerable students in the Washington College Grant; and substitute Senate Bill 6226, addressing audiology scope-of-practice and telemedicine concerns. Most of these bills passed with broad bipartisan support, though some drew dissent over added regulation, privacy, or scope-of-practice issues. The final portion of the transcript focused on Senate Bill 6106, which the Speaker ruled had an out-of-scope amendment related to agricultural seasonal workers; the bill itself passed 75-18 after debate over layoff notices and tribal sovereignty. Substitute Senate Bill 6014, dealing with pregnancy accommodations and related public records issues, saw a failed amendment to replace gender-neutral language with “pregnant woman” and then passed 68-25. The House also debated Senate Bill 5820, with multiple amendments concerning freight rail, greenhouse gas calculations, county planning, property rights, and rail safety; the excerpt ends amid that amendment debate before final action on the bill is shown.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Senate May 28th, 2026

Louisiana Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The reason why we're doing this is because we're at about a 6.5% error rating that the federal government
  • People do not want to give their Social Security numbers and their tax identification numbers to the government
  • People do not want to give their Social Security numbers or their tax identification numbers to the government
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Chamber Meeting Feb 14th, 2026 at 01:49 pm

New Mexico House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • They expect us to debate passionately, but to govern responsibly. Unity does not mean uniformity.
  • But some of them function like a surgical scalpel inside the eye, and the injury is irreversible.
  • What about government entities? Now, Mr.
  • Speaker, gentlemen, government entities hire lobbyists, and they are... Mr.
  • Speaker, Representative, but functionally, what's the difference between the two? Mr.
Bills: HB145 , HB164 , HR1 , HB20 , HB65 , HB66 , HB80 , HB306 , SB29 , SB37 , HB99 , HB206 , HB213 , HB270 , SB104 , SB193 , HB38 , HB254 , HB256 , SB58 , SB64 , HJM1 , HM7 , HM17 , HM4 , HM22 , HM23 , HM24 , HM26 , HM2 , HM16 , HM32 , HM13 , HM47 , HM20 , HM51 , HM1 , HM31 , HM35 , HM36 , HM46 , HM53 , HM54 , HM39 , HM29 , HM43 , HM59 , HM11 , HM14 , HM21 , HM34 , HM50 , HB253
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Feb 11th, 2026 at 03:55 pm

Washington House Floor Meeting

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  • This just gives way too much legislative power to an agency that falls in the executive side of government
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session Feb 11th, 2026 at 09:00 am

Washington House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • You've ordered this world and ordained all things, even the governments of the United States and Washington
  • well, to restrain evil, You're giving these servants the task to rule well, to restrain evil, to govern
  • I pray you would give them your wisdom for this work, a heart to care for those they govern, your guidance
  • This bill simply allows local governments to remit the same.
  • This bill simply allows local governments to remit the sales tax back to the developer for affordable
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session Feb 28th, 2026 at 10:00 am

Washington Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Govern our thoughts and feelings in all we do and say.
  • Right now, that's a government-to-government relation. Consultation that we currently have in law.
  • Right now, that's a government-to-government relation that is, again, in law today, Mr. President.
  • They can work with the government-to-government relations, which we deeply respect. But Mr.
  • It's nothing to do with the federal government anymore.
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, December 9, 2025)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c><00:47:38.800><c> to</c> forest lands with local governments to forest lands with local governments
  • land that pays no taxes to the federal government or to our local government.
  • In 1920, the government Indians.
  • His work ensured that government functioned not just effectively but responsively, meeting people where
  • His work ensured that government functioned not just effectively but responsively, meeting people where